Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/949 of 2 June 2017 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the configuration of the identification code for bovine animals and amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 911/2004 (Text with EEA relevance. )

Subject matter and scope

Article 1

This Regulation lays down rules for the configuration of the identification code for bovine animals as provided for in Article 4(3)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000.

Configuration of the identification code for bovine animals

Article 2

The identification code for bovine animals shall be displayed on the means of identification as follows: (a) the first element of the identification code must be the country code of the Member State where the means of identification was first applied, in the form of either the two-letter alpha code or the three-digit numeric code as listed in the Annex; (b) the second element of the identification code must be a numeric individual animal code not exceeding 12 digits; however, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom may maintain their system of an alphanumeric code for the 12 digits following the country code in respect of animals born until 31 December 1999 for Ireland, Spain, Italy and Portugal and for the United Kingdom in respect of animals born until 30 June 2000.

Computerised database

Article 3

The competent authority of the Member State may record in the computerised database for bovine animals as provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000, an identification code in the form of either the two-letter alpha code or the three-digit numeric code referred to in Article 2(a) of this Regulation regardless of the country code displayed on the means of identification provided that full traceability of a bovine animal is ensured.

Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 911/2004

Article 4

Regulation (EC) No 911/2004 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 1, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2.   The characters forming the identification code on the ear tags shall be as laid down in Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/949  ( *1 ) . ( *1 )   Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/949 of 2 June 2017 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the configuration of the identification code for bovine animals and amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 911/2004 ( OJ L 143, 3.6.2017, p. 1 ).’;" (2) Annex I is deleted.

Entry into force

Article 5

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

ANNEXSupplementary provisions

ANNEX Country codes as referred to in Article 2: Member State Two-letter alpha code Three-digit numeric code Belgium BE 056 Bulgaria BG 100 Czech Republic CZ 203 Denmark DK 208 Germany DE 276 Estonia EE 233 Ireland IE 372 Greece EL 300 Spain ES 724 France FR 250 Croatia HR 191 Italy IT 380 Cyprus CY 196 Latvia LV 428 Lithuania LT 440 Luxembourg LU 442 Hungary HU 348 Malta MT 470 Netherlands NL 528 Austria AT 040 Poland PL 616 Portugal PT 620 Romania RO 642 Slovenia SI 705 Slovakia SK 703 Finland FI 246 Sweden SE 752 United Kingdom UK 826